Poichi Excercise

Split Butterfly

Rhythm Excercise

Keep your Poi on the Plane, and try to make a beat where your poi meet ( in the middle of the line between your hands )
Try it on split time same direction, or butterfly (Same time Opposite Direction).

And try below

on Horizontal Plane In front of you

Twist body

on Horizontal Plane upper position

on Wall Plane

moving your arm position Right top to Left top ( like steering Car or boat )

make beat on behind

Make one extention but keep rhythm

Try it with turning

make one isolated and pirouette

Changing the length

There are 2 planes one is + make poi longer and - make poi shorter

Try them all positions

Home position, Crossed Psition, Crossed Position from BTB, Crossed Position from BTH

How to Count

Groupe Baton

Make Partner or Group. Make count togather and play !

Special Thanks to OKOTANPE

Okotanpe is super cool guy who does one of the most beautiful contact juggling in the world and one of the pioneer of Magnetic Batons. All the tutorial video I borrow is from Okotanpe. Visit Okotanpe.com and see his unique style more!

Acid Xpress

Listen music with ACID, and count and tap keyboad. Most of time ONLY ONE LISTEN is enough to analyze music!! What a Technology!!

Markers with Numbers

Hit "M" on keybord to count music. if iits 8 beat, then hit "M" every 8 count. "M" is a short cut to put markers with number.

Markers on the bottom (without numbers)

Hit "H" when music changed or someting cool sounds, different from other. "M" is red marker on the bottom. You can name it.

Write Choreography

Now You got Music. So you want to put cool moves into the music. But I don't want to sitting infront of PC and keybord to write Choreography. I want to move body and write donw to paper. But what is the paper? I do want to have something like music score for writing down my choreo graphy. But I can not find it, there is no score only for dance, juggling, etc.

So, I made it by myself for myself:)

It's been 7 years when I started writing down choreography. Little by little, it's progressed and now here is what I use now. It will be better for sure.

POISCORE

Is the Music SCORE for all the performers. Write Choreography with music lines.

Poiscore How to use Sample ( but old )

POISCORE Blank NOTE

you can writedown moves you already have and you might want to use it for the performance. It's kind of idea stock note.

POISCORE Half

This is going to be the 1st page for the score. You can write down your vision, ideas, or staging idea, whatever you want to on the top half. And write down music and moves bottom half.

Small Box Line

Each small box can be 1 beat or 2 beat. There are 32 boxes in a line. you can use it as 32 beats, or 64 beats. You can use color markers to show the emotion of the music. If music is silence, maybe "BLUE" color? If music sounds active, maybe "RED" something like that.

Top small blank Area

I normally put numbers. Begin with 1. So you can see How many bars (8count) you have. And, this is cool thing, you already have music on ACID program with numbers ( markers ). So this numbers connect to ACID directly! If you want to practice, 10 to 20, then just click 10 on ACID, then music is there!

Middle blank

Here is the place you write down your choreography. You can paint picture of the move, or you can writedown the name of the move, use it on your way :)

POISCORE FULL

This is full of Boxes. So you can writedown choreography full space.

Make PoiScore visible

Put numbers on

Line with color maker ( A B C )

Write down important lylics.

etc..

Play Music and Play Poi, Write Down what you find

Write down your moves on the score.

Play music playpoi, write note. and do it untill you fill the score up.

Sometimes it helps to do just improvisation a couple of times in front of camera, then watch them, find cool moves with the music. Then write it down on the score

Write down anything you find, this will make your SCORE rich.

You can not complete all at once, so little by little

Are You happy with what you wrote ? Then your performance is ready!....no, no no, don't forget practice!! Now practice hard

Now you have the analyzed musics, and great notes on the poiscore, it's time to practice again and again!!

the score and Acid will help you to make the performance much beter.

You can follow the number and click to play the part you want to listen, or you want to practice.

There are also "Repeat Region" on top. If you drag and drop at the top edge, there will be "BLUE" bars. Hit L and you can turn "repeat" on and off.

Use this Repeat region and markers, poiscore, this is super cool combination :)

Repeat 4 bars about 30 mins, and go next bars.

do it many times and you will find the part you want to change or add something. Go for it write down what you found. You have now the perfect score to remenber it.

Now you Perform and have fun !

You have great archive poiscore of the show, you never forget and you can add more and more anytime. The most great thing is you can see HOW YOU CREAT your performance on POISCORE. Not only the result, but how you choose the move, how you decide the way of the choreography is there. This will give you more idea next time !

Rhythm Excercise

Keep your Poi on the Plane, and try to make a beat where your poi meet ( in the middle of the line between your hands ) Try it on split time same direction, or butterfly (Same time Opposite Direction).

And try below

on Horizontal Plane In front of you

Twist body

on Horizontal Plane upper position

on Wall Plane

moving your arm position Right top to Left top ( like steering Car or boat )

make beat on behind

Make one extention but keep rhythm

Try it with turning

make one isolated and pirouette

Changing the length

There are 2 planes one is + make poi longer and - make poi shorter

Try them all positions

Home position, Crossed Psition, Crossed Position from BTB, Crossed Position from BTH